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Improv Everywhere: For our latest mission, we had 100 people camp out in front of a 99 cent store in Manhattan on Black Friday. Participants arrived early in the morning with tents, chairs, and sleeping bags, making it look like they had camped out overnight. When the store opened, the crowd rushed inside and made purchases, buying 99 cent items with glee. Actress Cody Lindquist posed as a local NBC news reporter and conducted interviews with confused and delighted store employees and passersby.
Watch the video first, and then check out the photos and report below.LOL
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“Jack Smith: A Feast for Open Eyes” is a retrospective celebration of the underground films, art and photography created by the legendary American artist, filmmaker and actor Jack Smith (1932-1989). Working in New York from the 1950s until his death in 1989, Smith resolutely resisted and upturned accepted conventions, whether artistic, moral or legal. Irreverent in tone and delirious in effect, Smith’s films are both wildly camp and subtly polemical. Smith was described by Andy Warhol as the only person he would ever copy and by John Waters as “the only true underground filmmaker.” While Smith is best known for his contributions to underground cinema, his influence extends across performance art, photography and experimental theater.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution photographs, a photo-gallery and two films, including the full version of Smith's rarely seen trippy, sexually decadent 1963 underground film classic, “Flaming Creatures.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/the-decadently-delirious-art-of-jack-smith-a-feast-for-open-eyes/“Jack Smith: A Feast for Open Eyes” is a retrospective celebration of the... more
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“Interlacing” is the first major exhibition of collected works by China’s renowned dissident artist Ai Weiwei, currently on display at Zurich’s Fotomuseum Winterthur. The collection consists of an extensive selection of photographs, videos and explanatory essays that present the interweaving artist as a network, company, activist, political voice, social container and agent provocateur.
Ai Weiwei is a generalist, conceptual, socially critical artist dedicated to creating friction with/and forming reality. As an architect, conceptual artist, sculptor, photographer, blogger, Twitterer, interview artist, and cultural critic, he is a sensitive observer of current topics and social problems: a great communicator and networker who brings life into art and art into life. Ai Weiwei deliberately confronts social conditions in China and in the world in ways that have captured an international audience.
In 2003, Ai Weiwei played a major role, together with the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, in the construction of the Olympic stadium, the so-called “Bird’s Nest.” Subsequently, he publicly repudiated the project and the whole Olympic buildup as a preposterous fraud to put on a “good face” for the international community. In 2007, 1001 Chinese visitors traveled, at his instigation, to “Documenta 12” (Fairytale) in Kassel, Germany. In 2010, the world marveled at his large, yet formally minimal carpet of millions of hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds at the Tate Modern.
Chinese officials announced in May, 2011, that the authorities were investigating Ai Weiwei on suspicion of tax evasion, after police officers had taken him from the main Beijing airport on April 3rd as he prepared to board a flight to Hong Kong. A global outcry went out, blasting the Chinese government for what was deemed a politically motivated move, claiming that the tax inquiry was a pretext to silence one of the most vocal critics of the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese legal authorities finally released Ai Weiwei on June 22nd, after a three-month detention, apparently ending a prosecution that had become a focal point of criticism of China’s eroding human rights record. Nevertheless, the terms of his release may silence him for months or even years.
This piece includes a number of photographs, a photo-gallery and three documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/ai-weiweis-interlacing-a-chinese-activists-photographs-and-videos/“Interlacing” is the first major exhibition of collected works by... more
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It's Friday and the sun is shining in London and it made me think of nature, or the lack there of. So here, in the name of performance art is a woman with a bushy tail pretending to be a squirrel.It's Friday and the sun is shining in London and it made me think of nature, or... more
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You are invited to our major new exhibition Modern Panic.
A surreal, provocative and controversial collection of modern artists.
We will be opening the exhibition with a special live art happening on Friday 3rd June 2011 - 'Panic Ephemeral' - An art happening, where many of the artists will be producing their work live in front of your eyes. This will be a mixture of powerful and unforgetable live art, surreal dadaist music and sonic sounds designs to access the 'other side' and shudderingly mind bending performance art.
Get your tickets here : www.guerrillazoo.com/modern-panic
Modern Panic is featuring such artists as infamous prisoner Charles Bronson (who's been in solitary confinement for 32 years), Bolivian enfant terrible Gastón Ugalde with his impressive coca leaf art, taxidermy artist Iris Schieferstein who's hoof boots have been sought after by the likes of Lady Gaga, provocative Kira O'Reilly, Tank Girl comic artist Rufus Dayglo and over 50 others!
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SAT 4TH JUNE - SUN 12TH JUNE 201
11am - 7pm
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http://ymlp.com/zR53DuYou are invited to our major new exhibition Modern Panic.
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“Never Sorry” is a fascinating 17-minute documentary short film about China’s renowned dissident artist Ai Wei Wei by freelance filmmaker Alison Klayman, who spent several months documenting his work and life, as well as capturing his many provocations and scuffles with the government. So who’s really so afraid of Ai Wei Wei? Well, the Chinese government for one. Ai Wei Wei is China’s most famous contemporary artist, acclaimed for his solo exhibitions the world-over.
Much to the Chinese government authorities’ chagrin, Ai Wei Wei has vociferously used his fame to speak his mind. A prolific blogger and tweeter, Wei Wei often publishes angry writings against injustice, corruption and abuse, which the Chinese censors invariably take down. Most famously, after assisting in the design of China’s renowned 2008 Olympic Stadium (the Bird’s Nest), Ai Wei Wei publicly repudiated the project and the whole Olympic buildup as a preposterous fraud to put on a “good face” for the international community.
A mere 5 days after the PBS television airing on March 29th of this short film, Ai Wei Wei was detained by police at Beijing airport, and proceeded to vanish. No word was given about where he was taken, only a vague statement from authorities that he had committed “economic crimes.” His associates and lawyer were also targeted and disappeared. A global outcry went out, blasting the Chinese government for what was deemed a politically motivated move; however, the protests appeared to have no effect. Youth culture began to assert itself, and based on the title of this short film, stencil graffiti and light tags imaging Ai Wei Wei went up all around Hong Kong and mainland China, in spite of extraordinary risks.
After 43 days of silence, Ai Wei Wei’s wife was finally allowed to visit him on May 15th. She has confirmed that he had not been maltreated and appeared to be in good health, but his imprisonment does not look as though it will be overturned any time soon. So for the time being, Ai Wei Wei is now China’s best known detainee.
This piece includes a number of color photographs, as well as the fascinating documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/never-sorry-whos-so-afraid-of-ai-wei-wei/“Never Sorry” is a fascinating 17-minute documentary short film about... more
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“Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960” presents a wide range of images focusing on performance art that were expressly made for the artist’s camera, which was recently on exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Performance art is usually experienced live, but what documents it and ensures its enduring life is, above all, photography. Yet photography plays a constitutive role, not merely a documentary one, when the performance is staged expressly for the camera (often in the absence of an audience), and the images that result are recordings of an event but also autonomous works of art. The pictures in this exhibition exemplify the complex and varied uses artists have devised for photography in the field of performance art since the 1960s.
Many artists have experimented with the camera to test the physical and psychological limits of the body. Other artists have enlisted the camera as an accomplice in experiments with identity, suggesting the plasticity or mutability of identity itself. They have engaged the production of the self as positional rather than fixed and often played with shifting ideas of gender and/or sexual identity. The exhibition also includes both off-the-cuff and staged performative gestures of political dissent, as well as explorations of the dualities of consumerism and dispossession.
“Staging Action” demonstrates the complex ways in which photography, confronting us with its ability to both freeze and extend a moment in time, pushes against the grain of mere documentation to create performance art as a conceptual exercise that can be appreciated in the absence of a performing body. Often the technology of the camera is able to open up new space for performance, isolating exhibitionist, arresting, spectacular and just plain wacky moments. For every strenuous performance in this collection that challenges physical and psychological limits, there’s also a very playful one.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution vintage photographs, an engrossing photo-gallery and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/performance-in-photography-since-1960-an-audience-of-one/“Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960” presents a wide... more
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Does Morgan Spurlock's latest effort "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" seem familiar?" It may be because it happened 13 years ago.
Conceptual artists The Art Guys (Michael Galbreath, Jack Massing) and designer Todd Oldham created this fusion of art and advertising. The Art Guys sold advertising on their suits and wore them for a year in this art project that puts marketing, branding, celebrity and pop culture under the microscope.
The similarities between this project created in 1998 and 1999 and Spurlocks Greatest Movie are eerie. At times situations and dialogue are virtually identical. There are many coincidences in the content. You be the judge... submitted for your approval.
http://www.thegreatestmovieeverstolen.comDoes Morgan Spurlock's latest effort "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold"... more
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Triiibe is a performance collective that originated in 2006 when performance artists and identical triplets, Alicia, Kelly and Sara Casilio joined creative forces with noted documentary photographer, Cary Wolinsky. Together, Triiibe creates political and social commentary through art using performance, video and photography. They explore diverse ideas together and their collective voice allows them to reach a broad audience. The images their exhibitions are carefully constructed observations on identity and the politics of identity. The works ask questions such as: How are we the same? How are we different? What is feminine? What is masculine? What role goes gender play in politics?
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a slide show and two documentary short films by Triiibe.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/tripling-playing-dress-up-to-disrupt-identity-politics/Triiibe is a performance collective that originated in 2006 when performance artists... more
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New York Film Academy faculty member Kevin Laibson (along with production company Magic Futurebox) is one of the producers responsible for the frenetic and futuristic multimedia adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s the Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, entertaining audiences through January 30th at New York City’s The Tank.
http://blog.nyfa.edu/post/2684483827/nyfa-faculty-futuristic-take-on-faustNew York Film Academy faculty member Kevin Laibson (along with production company... more
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Chronicling the groundbreaking performance of Another Evening: I Bow Down by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.Chronicling the groundbreaking performance of Another Evening: I Bow Down by Bill T.... more
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That Houdini, who was active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries continues to inspire twenty-first century visual artists such as Matthew Barney, Petah Coyne, Jane Hammond, Vik Muniz, Deborah Oropallo, and Raymond Pettibon (see the slideshow in the left column) speaks to his enduring power of his prowess and personality.That Houdini, who was active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries... more
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The "Taller Than the Sky" show, from the 2010 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. That was absolutely a stunning performance, never seen anything like it before.The "Taller Than the Sky" show, from the 2010 CCTV Spring Festival Gala.... more
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Take a sneak peak at Katy Perry's sexy new ad for her perfume PURR. You be the judge: Purrfectly great or Purrfectly awful?Take a sneak peak at Katy Perry's sexy new ad for her perfume PURR. You be the... more
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This video is a time-lapse rendering of an Apple ipad fingerpainting demo that was streamed live from artist David Kassan's Brooklyn studio on Monday, 21 June 2010. The model sat for 3 hours as Mr Kassan painted and answered questions on how he uses the iThis video is a time-lapse rendering of an Apple ipad fingerpainting demo that was... more
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Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine's version of "America's Got Talent." She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and "sand painting" skills to interpret Germany's invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII. This is the most unique piece of performance art I've ever seen.Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine's version of... more
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